that Freeman's brigade, which has been furloughed until spring, is still making raids in his vicinity. Forage and subsistence are very scarce there. Colonel J. D. Allen, Mount Vernon, Mo., January 25, states that 200 rebels are on the Arkansas border, commanded by one Brown.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, our obedient servant,

S. M. EATON,

Captain and Chief Signal Officer, Mil. Div. of West Mississippi.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES, Numbers 32.
City Point, Va., February 11, 1865.

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II. Bvt. Major General B. H. Grierson, U. S . Volunteers, will report in person to Major General E. R. S. Canby, commanding Military Division of West Mississippi, for orders. His personal staff and Captain S. L. Woodward, assistant adjutant-general, will accompany hi. The quartermaster's department will furnish transportation for horses and baggage of General Grierson and staff from Paducah, Ky., to New Orleans, La.

By command of Lieutenant-General Grant;

T. S. BOWERS,
Assistant Adjutant- General.

HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,

New Orleans, La., February 11, 1865.

Major General S. A. HURLBUT,

Commanding Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, La:

SIR: I am instructed by the major- general commanding to inform you that the restrictions hertofore imposed upon the shipment of cotton from Waterproof and Saint Joseph, Tensas Parish, La., under te authority of General Orders, Numbers 80 are hereby revoked.

Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,

C. T. CHRISTENSEN,

Lieutenant- Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

(Same to Major General N. J. T. Dana, commanding Department of Mississippi, Memphis, Tenn.: Honorable O. N. Cutler, purchasing agent, Treasury Department, New Orleans, La.)

HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,
New Orleans, La., February 11, 1865.

Major General F. STEELE,

Kenner, La.:

My dispatch of yesterday is hereby modified so as to read Lakeport instead of Hicks Landing as the place of embarkation on Lake Pontchartrain. Besides the steamers Nashua and N. P. Banks, sent to you yesterday, the Belvidere and Peabody, with capacity for 2,200, will be sent you to- day. These steamers, together with those at Lakeport, will, it is supposed, suffice for all your infantry and for the following batteries: Fifteenth Massachusetts, Second Connecticut, Twenty- First and Twenty- sixth New York. Thus all your troops, except the Second Massachusetts, First Indiana, and seventeenth Ohio Batteries, will be disposed of. The choice of troops to be sent by sea and those to be sent via Lakeport is left to yourself.

C. T. CHRISTENSEN,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.